Akmal B. Chaudhri, IBM DeveloperWorks

Akmal B. Chaudhri has been working with objects and databases for over ten years. He has been a regular presenter on Java, XML, and databases at a number of international conferences. He has edited the books Object Databases in Practice (Prentice-Hall, 1998), Succeeding with Object Databases (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), Java and Databases (Hermes Penton Science, 2002) and XML Data Management (Addison-Wesley, 2003). At present, he works for IBM developerWorks where he is editor for the Special Projects Zone. He has previously worked for Reuters, Logica, Computer Associates, and Informix Software. He holds a B.Sc. in computing and information systems, M.Sc. in business systems analysis and design, and a Ph.D. in computer science.